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A weaker form occasionally crops up in more Western works: an unlikely character ends up wiping out someone or two, and explains that their * insert relative here* is a sensei/boxing trainer/wrestling coach/gunslinger, and he/she's always grown up learning karate/boxing/wrestling/marksmanship.
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== Anime and Manga ==
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* Jin from ''[[Samurai Champloo]]'' used to be one of these.
* Miko Mido in ''[[La Blue Girl]]''. The kunoichi of the Mido clan not only learn ninjutsu, but [[Deus Sex Machina|sexual spells.]] Miko is the heir to the Mido clan, and has been training. (Even though, especially in the anime/OVA adaptation, [[I Just Want to Be Normal|she'd rather just be a normal teenage girl leading a normal life.]])
* Subveted in ''[[Soul Eater]]'', where there is the [[Highly
** And played straight by Black Star's weapon, Tsubaki, who is direct descendant of the first Demon Weapon.
* Makoto from [[W Juliet]] has a problem that's similar to the one faced by the aforementiioned Ken Wakashimazu: he does not want to be this despite his great skills, and his father is putting pressure on him. Makoto also gets a chance to get out of the tradition, but in his case, his dad tells him that since [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|looks very girlish]] and he wants to be an actor, he shall prove himself as skilled enough to spend his highschool years dressed as a girl without having his identity revealed to the public. If his true gender is leaked out, he'll come back home and retake his [[Heir to The Dojo]] place without complains.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* Played with in ''[[Power Rangers Ninja Storm]]''. [[Badass Bookworm|Cam]], despite being the son of the sensei of the Wind Ninja Academy, was ''not'' given any ninja training due to a promise given to his late mother. However, he could still defend himself against the enemy [[Mooks]], because "I grew up in a ninja school; do the math." Later on, the promise is worked around by training him as a samurai instead (even receiving the mother's blessing via [[Timey
* In ''[[Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger]]'', we learn that Anubis "Doggie" Kruger was given the inheritance to the intergalactic dojo he trained at as a cadet over the dojo owner's own son, who was considered to be too out of control and prone to [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|abusing whatever power he was given]] to be trusted with it. Not surprisingly, [[
== Video Games ==
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